Aisha Abbasi on Helplessness

"[O]ur genuine recognition of the helplessness life confronts us with at times is often highlighted and meaningfully recognised when we face real tragedy, loss, illness, or impending mortality. And recognition of this helplessness requires giving up idealised, omnipotent fantasies of being able to control and manage one's life if one just puts one's mind to it."

— Aisha Abbasi, 2014

Photograph by Annie Spratt